Wing Lock
Wei
Male
China
1892-00-00
Hongkong, Hong Kong
1935-09-22
New York City, New York, United States of America
He was born and raised in colonial Hong Kong, the scion of an influential business and political dynasty. A gifted athlete and scholar, he was the Chinese national tennis champion in 1914 and was one of the first engineering graduates of the University of Hong Kong in 1916 before matriculating at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). At MIT, he was the captain of the tennis team which beat Harvard and he also won the New England intercollegiate lawn tennis double championship with H. Brockman. After studies at Cambridge and volunteering for the YMCA in Europe, he returned to China to pursue a career in banking but found greater success representing China in international tennis tournaments. He represented China in the Far Eastern Olympic Games held in China and Japan in 1921 and 1923, in addition to serving as the captain of China’s Olympic Lawn Tennis Team in 1924, making him one of the first Chinese athletes to participate in the Olympics. In 1925, he was the captain of China’s first Davis Cup team. Wei then chose to remain in America, where he re-invented himself as a writer on Chinese topics for leading English publications such as Outlook and Reader’s Digest before his tragic drowning death in New York Hudson river in 1935.
1920 - 1924
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3
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1914 - Chinese National Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
Henning Muller 1 *
Wing Lock Wei
w.o.
Round 1
Wing Lock Wei 1 *
Alfred Vincent Putney Burr
3-6
6-4
8-6
2-6
6-4
Round 2
Cecil Lodge Philcox 1 *
Wing Lock Wei
3-6
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-4